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title: Judges 9:12 (JPS 1917) — And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us. · tree and pragmatics
description: And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us. Who acts: trees, thou. Judges 9:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Judges 9:12 · JPS 1917

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And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us.

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**Who acts:** trees, thou · **What happens:** say, come, reign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Judges 9:12 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JDG:272
# text = And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the trees |  |  |  |  | unto the vine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reign** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over us | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ הָעֵצִ֖ים לַגָּ֑פֶן לְכִי־אַ֖תְּ מָלְכִ֥י עָלֵֽינוּ׃

[Judges 9:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.9.12/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JDG:272` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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